- Kent School District
- Priority Initiatives
Priority Initiatives
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Presented in September 2019
The Kent School District Strategic Plan Steering Committee presented priority initiatives as areas of focus for the 2018-2019 and 2019-20 school years to the Kent School Board and Superintendent Watts at the September 12, 2018, regular board meeting.
Goal 1: Prepare all students to be college and career ready
Social/emotional learning
- Percent of students who express self-awareness of emotions
- Percent of students who rate high on self-management of emotions
- Implementation metric of SEL curriculum (self/district staff)
K-2 math/literacy
- Percent of kindergarten–second grade students meeting grade-level standards in math
- Percent of kindergarten–second grade students meeting grade-level standards in reading
Third-grade benchmark (school to prison pipeline metric)
- Percent of third-grade students reading at or above grade level by the end of the school year
High school credit accumulation (grade 10)
- Percent of tenth-grade students passing at least 5 of their classes by end of first and third quarters
- Percent of tenth-grade students with at least 12 credits by the end of their sophomore year
Entrance into post-secondary
- Percent of students entering a post-secondary experience (military, college, career prep) within one year of graduation
- Percent of seniors completing entrance requirements to a post-secondary experience prior to graduation
Goal 2: Engage parents, students, staff, and community in two-way communication
Stakeholder engagement in decision-making
- Number of opportunities provided to stakeholders to drive, engage, provide input and advise in district initiatives
- Number of opportunities by percent stakeholders drive, engage, provide input and advise district initiatives
Ongoing Strategic Planning Committee meetings
- 90-minute meetings held September, November, February, April, and June (aligned to Board calendar)
Two-way communication in various languages
- Percent of print communications and surveys from the district sent in top fifteen languages of the district
- Percent of district events where interpretative services are offered
Parent engagement support for student achievement
- Increased sponsorships and community partnerships to expand school-based parent engagement programs
- Number of programs, schools, participants
- Percent of increases, year over year
All staff, all-inclusive climate and communication survey
- Develop an administration plan that maximizes accessibility for all stakeholder groups
- School-based staff evaluation of central admin support – annual
- School-based and non-school-based staff – annual
- Student – twice a year
- Parent – annual
Goal 3: Create effective organizational systems
Support for high-need students
- Percent of staff prepared to support students in trauma
- District resources (dollars, programs) to support adult learning around student trauma Student Mobility (data dashboard info only)
- Enrollment entries and exits per 100 students (by school/district)
- Refugee enrollment numbers
Restorative justice
- Percent of students served through restorative justice practices
Budget and funding
- Fiscal Recovery Task Force will develop metrics the Board will monitor
- Strategic Plan Steering Committee will review task force metrics in future meetings to determine need for blueprint metrics
Discipline disproportionality
- Show disaggregated percent of distinct and repeat behaviors by student group (monthly)
Goal 4: Develop and retain a diverse and premier workforce
Competitive salaries for staff
- Report KSD’s staff salary rankings compared to regional competitors
Instructional coaches/professional development support
- Percent of schools with a designated, full-time instructional coach
Grow leaders internally
- Percent of principals promoted from other school-based positions
- Percent of central admin leadership staff promoted from other positions
Job-alike professional development opportunities
- Percent of staff who are satisfied or completely satisfied with opportunities to collaborate with job-alike colleagues
Retention (all staff)
- Percent of all staff retained (same position, same location) within the district
- Percent of staff who agree or strongly agree that they are proud to work in the Kent School District
- Percent of teachers who strongly agree or disagree that there is an atmosphere of trust in their building/district
University/advancement partnerships for staff
- Percent of eligible staff participating in university partnerships
- Percent of staff completing a university partnership program
- Percent of university partnership completers placed in district positions
- Percent of KSD graduates returning to teach in KSD
Last Modified on June 19, 2019